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Beta — After some quick organisation between a few of us we are happy to announce Vanilla TV will be covering Saturdays games of the ESEA LAN Finals.

As this has been done in a spare of a moment, it will be hosted by Arx & Beta on our stream.  Please join the VanillyTV mumble and STV below if you would like to direct the camera yourself.

HRG vs Fully Torqued @4pm GMT / 5pm CET

STV:  107.20.74.112:29034

VOD Map 1: HERE

VOD Map 2: HERE

Classic Mixup vs Chess Club @ 6:30pm GMT / 7:30pm CET

VOD Map 1: HERE

VOD Map 2: HERE

Skyride — While those of in Europe are having fun in our mumble channels and “PCW” servers, 4 teams of brave nerds are making their way from all 4 corners of the land of the Red, White and Blue to Dallas, TX. Starting at 5pm CET on Saturday, they will be playing an incredible series of video games to decide who will take home the lions share of a massive $10,800 prize pool. Yes, its ESEA LAN!

The tournament format is Double Elimination, and will be covered on the ESEA Orange stream by a group of fine gentlemen from TeamFortress.TV, namely  cbear,  Slin,  Bloodsire and  bl4nk with truktruk riding the Camera all weekend. The winner of this LAN will Represent NA at i49, more details can be found at http://i49.tf/.

Enjoy the team previews below, courtesy of Mr. Slin after the break.

enigma — In most of ESEA’s Christmas seasons, the matches that come before the break are bland, uninteresting, story-less affairs. This holiday season will have a special match, a main event of sorts, to bring us all Christmas tidings and good cheer.

The pocket soldier and demoman who have won the most LANs together in North American TF2 are b4nny and enoryt, former players for eMazing Gaming/Quantic Gaming/Leviathan Gaming. Perhaps the biggest storyline of the current and upcoming seasons will be how many they can win apart. Each player formed his own team using the remains of Leviathan Gaming, with b4nny bringing along his long-time scout and medic, cyzer and shade, while clockwork and hero decided to accompany enoryt. b4nny’s team, known as bp (possibly standing for Beyond Perfection or Banana Protagonist, depending upon the source) recruited shrugger to fill out the scout pair, Taggerung to take up the role of the roamer, and lansky to fill the illustrious enoryt’s shoes. Don’t Trip was formed out of the Spacewhales roster primarily, taking on Blaze as roamer, kbk and later alfa on medic, and the hardest job of all goes to dummy, who has to replicate the play of the greatest demoman to ever touch the game.

It all happens on December 19th at 05:30 CEST. It will be the first of an expected many grudge matches between Team enoryt and Team b4nny this season. The bad blood that has been boiling over for this entire offseason will finally come to light – make sure you’re there to see it.

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Torden — Crawling out from under my stone whenever there’s a major LAN event, here’s a quick one to rally the troops for the upcoming LAN final. The road to the finals has been nothing less than smooth sailing for the cogs of Mixup’s well oiled machinery, still to drop a single map throughout the entire season. The same can’t be said for the remnants of a former champion, Leviathan Gaming, having finally secured their (theoretical) chance for glory by beating Spacewhales in last night’s loser bracket finals…The former being the ones to drop LG to the loser bracket in the first place.

Word on the street is, LG will need to beat Mixup twice, as they’re coming from the loser bracket.

Just on reddit, Salamancer revealed the coalition-of-ESEA-casting-renegades is due to do a pre game analysis at 10 CST, that should be 17 CET (ie. NOW) if my calculations are correct.

Classic Mixup enigma, Ruwin, harbleu, TLR, PYYYOUR, Platinum

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Leviathan Gaming hero1, Dave__AC, enoryt, shade, b4nny, cyzer

ESEA Season 12 - NA - TF2 Invite Playoffs

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• Sunday November 18th
• 17:30 cet
• 11:30 est (na)
• 01:30 est (aus)

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• VanillaTV Mumble

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• No source tv information available

Who will win this match?

• Classic Mixup (73%, 8 Votes)
  
• Leviathan Gaming (27%, 3 Votes)
  

Total Voters: 11

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Trell — Unless you’re living under a rock, you’ll have noticed that there is a small, unknown lan happening this weekend in the US of A.  Ah, who am I kidding, it’s the highlight of NA’s TF2 calendar, ESEA Lan, this time in its 12th Season!

Held in Dallas with the top 4 teams in North America competing to get their grubby mitts on part of the $10,000 prize pool, we’re all looking forward to seeing some intense games over the course of the weekend.

Coverage will be provided via the ESEA official stream, by  djc,  cbear,  Seanbud,  Sigma and  Lange.  VanillaTV will be helping the guys out with assets in return for some promotion.  Read on for more information on the teams and match times!

Hildreth — Unless you have been living in a cave under a rock, then you will know about the kings amongst men that are over at eXtelevision organising the fundraising efforts for sponsoring the two best North American teams to cross the Atlantic and get over to Telford, United Kingdom and compete at this summer’s big event – Multiplay’s Insomnia 46. In order to help raise money towards the donation fund - which you can find embedded below - VanillaTV will host a night of exhibition matches over the next two weekends between the top two teams in North America:  Leviathan Gaming and  Classic Mixup and the top two teams currently in Europe:  Epsilon eSports and  TCM-Gaming.

Greg — It may actually be happening; the ever prophisied news that I can never pin my hopes on… North American teams might actually be coming to a European Insomnia Series event.  I am always going to be skeptical regarding this sort of news, because of the dynamics of eSports.  How many times before this June have we heard leaked news and “all but confirmed” information that a U.S. Team Fortress 2 team will be crossing the Atlantic to compete in England?  I don’t think anyone has forgotten the escapades of Catman and Qun with their prodigious events – CatmanLAN and AmsterLAN.

This time however it looks as if Multiplay will help answer the EU vs. NA debate that has always fluttered above the heads of the TF2 6v6 community.  At this point, I want to tip my hat to the community members behind this initiative – The eXtv boys ( Extine,  Salamancer and Shadowpuppet in particular) and the support from Multiplay (mainly Tapley).  I am not here to speculate of the likehood of seeing our American friends in Telford, I shall leave that to the community.  I am here to discuss trials and tribulations the North Americans will have to overcome in the differences between the ESEA Playoff LAN, and the biggest Team Fortress 2 LAN in history.